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- USN-6695-1
USN-6695-1: TeX Live vulnerabilities
First published: Thu Mar 14 2024(Updated: )
It was discovered that TeX Live incorrectly handled certain memory operations in the embedded axodraw2 tool. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause TeX Live to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-18604) It was discovered that TeX Live allowed documents to make arbitrary network requests. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to exfiltrate sensitive information, or perform other network-related attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-32668) It was discovered that TeX Live incorrectly handled certain TrueType fonts. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted TrueType font, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause TeX Live to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2024-25262)
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| All of | ||
| ubuntu/texlive-binaries | <2023.20230311.66589-6ubuntu0.1 | 2023.20230311.66589-6ubuntu0.1 |
| Ubuntu Ubuntu | =23.10 | |
| All of | ||
| ubuntu/texlive-binaries-sse2 | <2023.20230311.66589-6ubuntu0.1 | 2023.20230311.66589-6ubuntu0.1 |
| Ubuntu Ubuntu | =23.10 | |
| All of | ||
| ubuntu/texlive-binaries | <2021.20210626.59705-1ubuntu0.2 | 2021.20210626.59705-1ubuntu0.2 |
| Ubuntu Ubuntu | =22.04 | |
| All of | ||
| ubuntu/texlive-binaries | <2019.20190605.51237-3ubuntu0.2 | 2019.20190605.51237-3ubuntu0.2 |
| Ubuntu Ubuntu | =20.04 |
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Reference Links
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-25262
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-18604
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-32668
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/texlive-bin/2023.20230311.66589-6ubuntu0.1
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/texlive-bin/2021.20210626.59705-1ubuntu0.2
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/texlive-bin/2019.20190605.51237-3ubuntu0.2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6695-1 (Advisory)
Child vulnerabilities
(Contains the following vulnerabilities)
- collector/usn
- source/Ubuntu
- agent/software-canonical-lookup
- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/title
- agent/references
- agent/severity
- agent/tags
- agent/type
- agent/softwarecombine
- agent/first-publish-date
- agent/event
- agent/description
- package-manager/ubuntu
- vendor/ubuntu
- canonical/ubuntu ubuntu
- version/ubuntu ubuntu/23.10
- version/ubuntu ubuntu/22.04
- version/ubuntu ubuntu/20.04